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The National Premier Soccer League, commonly known as NPLS, is the fourth tier of the US soccer pyramid. It is together a regional and a national league, meaning it is divided in 4 regions (Northestern, South, Midwest, Western) that represent the whole country. It takes place in the summer months, so they can draw players from NCAA soccer.

I quite like their new logo, so I designed coordinated logos for the 4 regions and 13 conferences.

The four regions have different stars positioning to represent the geographical positon, but they are always 4, as the regions.

The conference logos have a similar appearance, with only a different crest shape. Of the 4 ever present stars one is red, representing which region the conference is in.

North Atlantic and Mid Atlantic have a wavy top and bottom to represent the ocean

Keystone, asPennsylvania is known as the keystone state

Heartland has a confederate vibe

Lone star is literally Texas

Sunshine has a Florida shape

Southeast has a flag shape, for all the pirates that had their coves on the south eastern coast.

East has ha waterfall side to represents the Niagara falls, real symbol of the area

Great lakes has 3 red stripes and two blue ones to represent the 5 major lakes.

North has a big star, representing the northen star guiding the path

Golden gate, what to add...

Northwest, has a side shaped like an evergreen tree

Southwest, sun rays for the SoCal conference

I designed the kit for the two diffent all-star teams of the league. The all-star game is actually called Rising Stars National Game in my redesign. Two regions will play against the other two regions; the couples will be decided by a draft on the game's eve, so every region sends the same number of all star players to enable every combination.

Hope you enjoy the concept. In the future I'll post the rebranding of all the 92 clubs in the league, but it will be a slow start, as I'm currently working on many other projects

Heartland wordmark got a new placement as did the Sunshine wordmark. For the Southeast I decided to go with Cape Hatteras lighthouse silhouette.

New North Star shape for the North conference.

Southwest conference wordmark got a new navy background to make it more visible on the sun rays. Northwest pine tree has been redesigned to look more the part and the upper part resembles now the northwestern-most part of the state of Washington.

the division logos are interesting, I liked how you took slight symbolism in them and I love the keystone reference of my home state my only concern is how some people may not like the Confederate feeling to the Heartland. It'd be different if it was for just Alabama or Florida as its similar to their flags but I'm assuming its for multiple states, but you do you. Brooklyn looks interesting. I look forward to keeping up

Logo: I used their current shield shape and skyline pattern for my logo, changing the rampant lion and eliminating once and for all the football that looked like it was just photoshopped on the logo.

Kit: The home kit is a nod to the USA national team popsicle look, the bold move is to invert the color scheme on the shorts. The clash kit is a reference to the New England Flag with the red and green scheme. A sublimated araldic lion was added to the jersey to remind the ride of being part of Boston City FC.

Logo: The New York Cosmos logo is iconic and has some history over its shoulders, so I decided to use it as it is, not even tweaking the stars on the ball that were added at the time of the first NASL.

Kit: I went with a navy main kit, with little nods to the tri color wave. The clash in in the traditional colors of white and green, with a sublimated wave.

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Isolating the motion lines is an interesting concept, but I don’t think it’s effective without the ball. It’s not a “wave”, which probably could stand on its own, but is supposed to indicate the spin of a ball. Like the grooves in Bond’s gun barrel.

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I know I said wave, but it was for semplification's sake. I thought that those graphic signs were either the spin of the ball or a nod to something ''cosmic'' like the tail of a comet. Either way, I liked the idea to have it on its own, as I tried it with the ball and the jersey looks a lot messier (Messi... maybe it is not bad for a soccer team ).